Day 242 - 29 Apr 96 - Page 24

     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  I just want to check if I have any further
     3        questions.  There was one final question actually -- no,
     4        I will leave it.  No further questions.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  We will have our 5-minute break then.
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     8                       (Short adjournment)
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    10                  Cross-examined by Mr. Rampton
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    12   Q.   Dr. Carriere -- this is not meant in any offensive way at
    13        all -- by training you are a political scientist?
    14        A.  That is correct.
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    16   Q.   Not a botanist, a biologist, a geographer or a
    17        climatologist?
    18        A.  No, I am not.
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    20   Q.   Your studies in Costa Rica -- correct me if I am wrong --
         have been, as it were, in relation to the social and
    22        economic effects, largely speaking, of various kinds of
    23        activity including agriculture; is that right?
    24        A.  That is correct.  I would qualify that by saying that
    25        I have also been concerned with the politics behind the
    26        deforestation.
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    28   Q.   That I well understand.  Are you labouring under an
    29        impression that McDonald's owns land in Costa Rica?
    30        A.  I have no such impression.
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    32   Q.   No.  Your only source for McDonald's rainforest policy --
    33        whatever rainforest may mean in that context -- are the
    34        statements of David Rose; is that right?
    35        A.  Plus McDonald's own Public Relations output.
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    37   Q.   Yes.  Are you also under the impression that McDonald's in
    38        the United States uses Costa Rican beef?
    39        A.  I have no information about that.
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    Q.   Thank you.  Only really, I think, one other thing then -- a
    42        couple of other things.  Do you know professor Daniel
    43        Janssen?
    44        A.  I have met him once or twice at conferences.
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    46   Q.   Is his, so far as you are concerned, reputation as an
    47        expert on Costa Rican matters something on which we can
    48        safely rely?
    49        A.  Yes.
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    51   Q.   Then, as I say, only one other matter -- have you those 
    52        pages from the Tropical Science Centre book? 
    53        A.  The one called USA ID Contract?
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    55   Q.   Yes, that is the one.
    56        A.  I do.
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    58   Q.   Written, amongst others, by Hartshorn and Tosi?
    59        A.  Correct, yes.
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